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Carrol Clemens was our hostess again this year as 14 SOBs gathered for the annual Will Crakes Memorial Jollification. Bob Coghill, from the Stormy Petrels of Vancouver, B.C., was cat sitting again in Maple Valley, so he joined us—lucky us and lucky cat. He—Bob, that is—took a video of us around Carrol’s living room and the table full of Christmas goodies to send to David and Terri. We missed… Continue reading Holiday Jollification!

A Sherlockian Meeting of the “Practical but Limited Geologists” and the “Sound of the Baskervilles” at the Geological Society of America Seattle Convention, October 25, 2017 Concurrent with the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) convention in Seattle, BSI Peter Blau, former Chief Geologist of the State of Maryland and well respected in both groups, called… Continue reading Practical but Limited Geologists

Having just too much fun crowding around the kitchen counter, visiting and enjoying the eats everyone brought, it was really hard for PFL David to grab the attention of those attending the South Sound Meeting of The Sound of the Baskervilles at Haugens’ home on August 12, 2017. What?! We thought this was just a… Continue reading Just a Sunny Social Day for South Sound Meeting

In honour of both the Battle of Maiwand and Dr. Watson, The Sound of the Baskervilles’ 2017 Dr. John H. Watson Picnic was a sunny success! Fun was definitely the order of the day on Saturday, July 29, 2017, when The Sound of the Baskervilles held its 21st consecutive Dr. John H. Watson Annual Picnic. … Continue reading “Battles of Maiwand” Dominate Watson Picnic!

Says long-time SOB Member Margaret Nelson (1995), “Each June I hope a Moss Rose will be in bloom to bring to the SOB meeting. Right now my own plant is not in bloom but I was able to get a few flowers from another garden to bring to our June meeting for show-and-tell and also… Continue reading June Meeting: Fun, STUD, Food…and Moss Roses!

SOBs at the May Meeting: Francis, Nancy, and Cameron At The Sound of the Baskervilles’ May 2017 Meeting, held at the Queen Anne branch of the Seattle Public Library, we had to bid adieu to SOB Francis Bond (above, left). Having joined our scion in October 2016 at the most recent Sherlock Seattle Convention, the… Continue reading Hello, SPEC!! So long, Bond, Francis Bond!!

A blue sky with temps in the high-60s allowed twenty members of The Sound of the Baskervilles to enjoy our 35th Annual Wreath Throw on May 6, 2017. This long-standing club event commemorates the final confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen, Switzerland for, in Sherlock’s words, “…the final… Continue reading White Water, Sunny Skies Abound for The SOBs 2017 Wreath Throw!

I honestly can’t think of anything that defined my pre-teen years quite as much as Basil of Baker Street, both the original Eve Titus books and Disney’s Great Mouse Detective (which I still think is basically the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation evar, the end), which then led me to pick up the original Doyle when I was eight or nine.

Anyway, not going to lie, the illustrations in the original books by Paul Galdone were a huge drawing influence for me. I copied them diligently so that I could then do forgeries in the same style for scenes in my mental fanfic. (Mental, because I hadn’t yet encountered actual fanfiction, and thought that writing down my mental crimes would then be Plagiarism, something I took Very Seriously. Oh, child.)